ELI RESEARCH
What sources do AI search engines cite for B2B buying questions?
A citation type shows whether support comes from vendors, publishers, reviews, community or research.
Source-type results not yet released.
RELEASE STANDARD
Methodology is publishable before findings are.
Eli can publish the question universe, schema, definitions and quality controls before a benchmark release. It will only publish an aggregate when the underlying observations are complete, reviewable and described with their coverage and limitations. Until then, this page makes no performance, ranking or customer-outcome claim.
Source taxonomy
Vendor, documentation, editorial, review/comparison, community, research/data, directory and unknown; do not force unknown classification.
Classification method
For each URL identify domain/page type, assign source type, mark owned/third-party and record ambiguity.
How teams use this
Recurring editorial reviews or documentation can guide evidence priorities, but these remain hypotheses until measured.
FAQ
Questions about the research design and release boundary.
Types?
Vendor, docs, editorial, review, community, research, directory and unknown.
Community always important?
Measure it.
Vendor less trusted?
Not automatically.
Multiple types one site?
Yes.
Why unknown?
Avoid false classification.
CONNECT YOUR WEBSITE
Map the source mix in your category
Eli classifies visible AI-search citations into vendor pages, documentation, editorial publishers, reviews, communities, research/data and directories to understand evidence supporting B2B answers.
Map the source mix in your category